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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Augusten Burroughs is a far-from-ordinary man that has led a far-from-ordinary life. His series of tragic memoirs, characterized by his razor-sharp wit and blatant honesty, detail an outrageous life that few could have escaped unscathed. The interview was a pleasant surprise, with Augusten warm, excited, and eager to speak about his new memoir, “A Wolf at the Table,” a much darker...
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
With his new book, "A Wolf at the Table," writer Augusten Burroughs proves that his memory well hasn't gone dry.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Augusten Burroughs' much-anticipated new memoir begins with a chase. In a gripping prologue, we are alongside the pajama-clad 10-year-old as he races barefoot through the woods near his family's Massachusetts home, his enraged, alcoholic monster of a father at his heels.
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
With his new book, "A Wolf at the Table," writer Augusten Burroughs proves that his memory well hasn't gone dry.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
As far as nascent literary subgenres go, there may be none sadder than the maternal counter-memoir. As we wait for Augusten Burroughs ' mom to come out with her version of the truth, we can -- if we're French-- already read Lucie Ceccaldi's take on her son Michel Houellebecq 's dysfunctional childhood, which he fictionalized in 'The Elementary Particles.' Angelique Chrisafis, who interviewed...
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Towleroad (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Our Towleroad TV team Josh Helmin and Josh Koll paid a visit to author Augusten Burroughs at his home in Amherst, Massachusetts where he lives with his partner Dennis and their two French bulldogs. Burroughs opened up about his new...
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
The growth overtook Grover’s mouth and he could no longer eat. “Please,” I begged my father. “He needs to go to the doctor.” “Well, we’ll see how he does,” he said, waving me away. . . . Grover died. --From “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father,” by Augusten Burroughs . . .
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caffeine-headache (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Augusten Burroughs new book, A wolf at the Table hit stores this week! His 2002 hilarious, yet heartbreaking memoir Running With Scissors touched on his mentally-ill mother who deposited him with (at age 12) with her shrink. His 2003...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Courtesy of St. Martin's Press Running With Scissors author Augusten Burroughs takes a brutal hit today from Times reviewer Janet Maslin, who calls his new memoir A Wolf at the Table "determinedly unfunny, awkwardly histrionic and sometimes anything but credible." More notable than Maslin's critique of his writing — at one point she even makes fun of his use of assonance — is her suggestion...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
In a polygraphish New York profile , Sam Anderson got Augusten Burroughs to admit that he might, 5 memoirs in, be running out of life-experience to mine: "He says he might be done. He wants to go back to fiction, which he says always feels like an adventure." Today in the Times , Janet Maslin agrees . After kicking things off by bemoaning the fact that "book's cover graphic packs more...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Determinedly unfunny, awkwardly histrionic and sometimes anything but credible, Augusten Burroughs's new memoir repudiates everything that put him on the map.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
... my books published as memoirs." And wait -- is there an echo in here? Alleged fake memoirist Augusten Burroughs , who's also doing an image-rehab press tour in anticipation of his next book (his "first memoir in five years"), tells New York 's Sam Anderson that the memoir genre has "spun out of control," and that today's "memoirs" are like inbred puppy-mill puppies. It's not like...
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Amuse the Ants (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors, reached back into his early childhood to write his sixth book, A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father. In this heartbreaking account, Burroughs reflects on his desperate and unsuccessful attempts to earn the attention of his alcoholic father while struggling to confirm his suspicions that there was something very wrong with him. Burroughs has...
